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From: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
To: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Force Charlie <charlieio@outlook.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] remote-curl: ensure last packet is a flush
Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 17:02:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200515210245.GA3278654@generichostname> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7a689da2bb820f70d9e668d656b088af2297d456.1589393036.git.liu.denton@gmail.com>

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 02:04:58PM -0400, Denton Liu wrote:
> This is not a complete solution to the problem, however. It is possible
> that a flush packet could be sent in the middle of a message and the
> connection could die immediately after. Then, remote-curl would not
> error out and fetch-pack would still be in the middle of a transaction
> and they would enter deadlock. A complete solution would involve
> reframing the stateless-connect protocol, possibly by introducing
> another control packet ("0002"?) as a stateless request separator
> packet which is always sent at the end of post_rpc().
> 
> Although this is not a complete solution, it is better than nothing and
> it resolves the reported issue for now.

I managed to get the implementation of the control packet working. As a
result, I will be dropping this patch in the next reroll and replacing
it with the more complete solution. For anyone reviewing, feel free to
skip this patch.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-15 21:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-13 18:04 [PATCH 0/6] remote-curl: partial fix for a deadlock with stateless rpc Denton Liu
2020-05-13 18:04 ` [PATCH 1/6] remote-curl: fix typo Denton Liu
2020-05-13 18:04 ` [PATCH 2/6] remote-curl: remove label indentation Denton Liu
2020-05-13 18:04 ` [PATCH 3/6] transport: combine common cases with a fallthrough Denton Liu
2020-05-13 23:14   ` Eric Sunshine
2020-05-18  9:18     ` Denton Liu
2020-05-18 17:43       ` Eric Sunshine
2020-05-13 18:04 ` [PATCH 4/6] pkt-line: extern packet_length() Denton Liu
2020-05-13 23:23   ` Eric Sunshine
2020-05-15 20:56   ` Jeff King
2020-05-15 20:57     ` Jeff King
2020-05-13 18:04 ` [PATCH 5/6] remote-curl: error on incomplete packet Denton Liu
2020-05-15 21:38   ` Jeff King
2020-05-18  9:08     ` Denton Liu
2020-05-18 15:49       ` Jeff King
2020-05-13 18:04 ` [PATCH 6/6] remote-curl: ensure last packet is a flush Denton Liu
2020-05-15 21:02   ` Denton Liu [this message]
2020-05-15 21:41     ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 16:34       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-18 16:52         ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 21:00           ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 15:47 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] remote-curl: fix deadlocks when remote server disconnects Denton Liu
2020-05-18 15:47   ` [PATCH v2 1/7] remote-curl: fix typo Denton Liu
2020-05-18 15:47   ` [PATCH v2 2/7] remote-curl: remove label indentation Denton Liu
2020-05-18 18:37     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-18 15:47   ` [PATCH v2 3/7] transport: extract common fetch_pack() call Denton Liu
2020-05-18 18:40     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-18 15:47   ` [PATCH v2 4/7] pkt-line: extern packet_length() Denton Liu
2020-05-18 16:04     ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 17:50       ` Eric Sunshine
2020-05-18 20:08         ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 18:44       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-18 15:47   ` [PATCH v2 5/7] remote-curl: error on incomplete packet Denton Liu
2020-05-18 16:22     ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 16:51       ` Denton Liu
2020-05-18 15:47   ` [PATCH v2 6/7] pkt-line: PACKET_READ_RESPONSE_END Denton Liu
2020-05-18 15:47   ` [PATCH v2 7/7] stateless-connect: send response end packet Denton Liu
2020-05-18 16:43     ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 17:12       ` Denton Liu
2020-05-18 17:26         ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 16:50   ` [PATCH v2 0/7] remote-curl: fix deadlocks when remote server disconnects Jeff King
2020-05-18 17:36     ` Denton Liu
2020-05-18 20:58       ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 22:52         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-19  2:38           ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 19:36     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-19 10:53   ` [PATCH v3 " Denton Liu
2020-05-19 10:53     ` [PATCH v3 1/7] remote-curl: fix typo Denton Liu
2020-05-19 10:53     ` [PATCH v3 2/7] remote-curl: remove label indentation Denton Liu
2020-05-19 10:53     ` [PATCH v3 3/7] transport: extract common fetch_pack() call Denton Liu
2020-05-19 10:53     ` [PATCH v3 4/7] pkt-line: extern packet_length() Denton Liu
2020-05-19 16:23       ` Eric Sunshine
2020-05-19 10:53     ` [PATCH v3 5/7] remote-curl: error on incomplete packet Denton Liu
2020-05-19 10:53     ` [PATCH v3 6/7] pkt-line: define PACKET_READ_RESPONSE_END Denton Liu
2020-05-19 10:54     ` [PATCH v3 7/7] stateless-connect: send response end packet Denton Liu
2020-05-19 18:40     ` [PATCH v3 0/7] remote-curl: fix deadlocks when remote server disconnects Jeff King
2020-05-19 21:14       ` Denton Liu
2020-05-19 20:51     ` [PATCH v3 8/7] fixup! pkt-line: extern packet_length() Denton Liu
2020-05-22 13:33     ` [PATCH v3 9/9] fixup! remote-curl: error on incomplete packet Denton Liu
2020-05-22 15:54       ` Jeff King
2020-05-22 16:05         ` Denton Liu
2020-05-22 16:31           ` Jeff King

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